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Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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Leonard Norman Cohen
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Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever - the discomfort is so intense. Maybe it's always been like that, certainly it is now.
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.
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If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I'm your man.
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I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.
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Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
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Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.
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I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.
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And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way
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There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel a very special kind of nourishment.
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I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
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It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter. I know that kind of man It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else. Then let's be quiet together.
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
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Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
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